Dave Fleet

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A Privacy-First Digital Marketing Landscape

Dave Fleet

As I wrote last week, there is an ongoing dearth of trust in the digital marketing industry. We are in the midst of seeing a privacy-first digital marketing landscape emerge which is going to have a big impact on our ability to reach and influence audiences, and the need for that landscape is – mostly – our fault. Data with empathy.

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

My primary concern was that, after seeing nearly a 90% variance between their numbers and those from Google Analytics on my own site, I couldn’t trust that their numbers for other sites would be correct. We have a small sample warning on your website, which means we have limited data on your domain.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

At first glance it seems similar to Google Analytics in nature – in fact, I previously under the incorrect impression it simply connected social media traffic to web analytics. In doing so, you gain a relative value for each visitor to your site. This has implications for several functions within companies: Sales.

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Interview: Aaron Goldman – Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google

Dave Fleet

Tweet Aaron Goldman is the author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google (affiliate link). Before declaring free agency earlier this week, Aaron was the founder and principal at Connectual , where he put lessons learned from Google to good use in digital marketing consulting and matchmaking.

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Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

As reported by Marketing Pilgrim : Paid search matters most for new customers. Nearly three years ago, I obsessed over another Forrester report on the social media marketing ecosystem , which the pros and cons of paid, owned and earned media. Social media, says the report, drives less than 1% of online sales. Here’s my take: 1.